Maybe you thought Australia's national dish was a meat pie. Aussie chef Steve Jackson says it's actually spaghetti bolognese. Though it's seldom cooked the right way, he says, and should be eaten with tagliatelle rather than spaghetti. So, we cooked an Italian style with the traditional ...

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Are you good at climbing trees? Can you do it quickly? If you are an arborist you end up spending a lot of time climbing trees and tending to their health. It turns out there is a championship all about this at the end of this month in Tampa, Florida. Deft tree climbers from 17 countries will be there, ...

Tongue, squid and seaweed are just some of the more adventurous foods to have crept on to the menus of Australia's best restaurants recently. When did we become so open to trying such new and different foods?
Kate Gibbs shares her theory....